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...Poverty by itself, however, does not create criminals - after all, destitution is far worse in other parts of Africa that have far less crime. But relative poverty - missing out while others seem to be gaining - can certainly fuel violent resentment. "There isn't as much support for the proposition that poverty causes crime in the international criminological literature as you might expect," writes South African criminologist Anthony Altbeker in a study published last month. "However, there is a much stronger conviction among academics that inequality causes crime; that the difference between what the rich and poor earn matters more than...
...that strategy might be working. More than 200,000 Swiss have signed a People's Party initiative - the first step towards debating a new law in parliament - to deport immigrants who commit violent crimes, even after they have served prison sentences, and to deport entire families of immigrants, if the accused is under 18 years...
...Iraqi town of Mahmudiyah, a district on Baghdad's rural southern fringe, which until recently was best known for its place in the Triangle of Death. Mahmudiyah was where five U.S. soldiers were killed and three kidnapped in May. But local Iraqis there are now trying to soften its violent reputation and even make Mahmudiyah and its surrounding political district a model for peace and reconciliation among Iraqis and with Coalition troops...
...political district of Mahmudiyah lies just south of metropolitan Baghdad and includes the violent urban centers of Yusifiyah, Latifiyah and Mahmudiyah. It shares a rough-and-tumble neighborhood with Anbar to the west and Babil to the south. A mixed region of Shi'a and Sunni, city and country, the mostly agricultural region suffers all the sectarian, economic and political woes of the capital. While the region's Sunni and Shi'ite tribes battled each other for land and primacy, they found a common enemy in the U.S. troops stationed there. But that situation changed about four months...
...Lockridge-Steckel said Patrick has not done enough to fight crime in black communities. “We want him to give an address detailing his strategy for measurably reducing black-on-black crime,” Lockridge-Steckel said. The event came in response to two high-profile violent crimes. Last Saturday, Myron Stovell, a Pop Warner football coach, was shot in the leg near the basketball court that students visited in Roxbury. A 15-year-old Roxbury boy was arrested and charged with the shooting, according to the Boston Globe. On Oct. 4, Steven P. Odom...